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brain death : the final stopping of activity in the central nervous system esp. as indicated by a flat electroencephalogram for a usually statutorily predetermined period of time brain-dead [brān-ded] adj ...
death
death : a permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions : the end of life see also brain death, civil death NOTE: Death is usually defined by statute and for purposes of criminal homicide has been held to include brain death. ...
Brain-stem death
Brain-stem death, means the stage at which all functions of the brain-stem have permanently and irreversibly ceased and is so certified under sub-s. (6) of s. 3. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (d)]...
left brained
Exhibiting intellectual or personality characteristics suggesting dominance of linguistic or logical modes of thought which are usually controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere as left brained pedants unable to appreciate music also referred to as linear See linear3 Contrasted with right brained...
Death
Death. As to the registration of a death, see (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 48), 37 & 38 Vict. c. 88, 6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86, and 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22. As to an action brought for damages arising from death by accident, neglect, etc., see the (English) Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 93) [(English) Lord Campbell's Act] to 1908, as amended by (English) Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), s. 2 (q.v.). as to the effect of death after the commencement of an action, see (English) Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934. Apart from these statutes, at Common Law no civil claim for damages can be brought for the death of a human being, Baker v. Bolton, (1808) 1 Camp 493; The Amerika, 1914, P. 167. See BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES; ACTIO PERSONALIS; LAW REFORM; and Public Health Act, 1936 (deaths from infectious diseases). As to punishment of death, see CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.Homicide; includes suicide ...
Births, Marriages, and Deaths
Births, Marriages, and Deaths. By the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 86), amended by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1837 (7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 22), a General Register Office is provided for keeping a register of births, deaths, and marriages in England. The Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874 [37 & 38 (English) Vict. c. 88], amends the laws relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England in important particulars, and consolidates the law relating to the registration of births and deaths at sea. This Act (s. 1) imposes upon the father and mother of a child, and in their default, upon the occupier of a house in which to his knowledge a child is born, the duty of giving information to the registrar within 42 days. By s. 10 a corresponding obligation to register a death is imposed upon relatives, etc.By s. 203 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, births of any child alive or dead after the twenty-eighth week of ...
Death duties
Death duties. These are (1) the Estate Duty, which, by the (English) Finance Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 30), superseded the Probate or Administration Duty leviable under the Stamp Act, 1815, and the Account Duty leviable under the (English) Customs and (English) Inland Revenue Act, 1881; (2) the Succession Duty leviable under the (English) Succession Duty Act, 1853; (English) and (3) the Legacy Duty leviable under the Stamp Act, 1815:- duties leviable on the passing of property by the death of a person to his successors; (4) Settlement Estate Duty was abolished in respect of all deaths after 11th May, 1914, (English) Finance Act, 1914, s. 14. It consisted of 1 per cent., increased to 2 per cent. by the (English) Finance (1909-10) Act, 1910, in addition to other duties on settled property. It was not payable on property settled before August 1st, 1894, and certain allowances are accorded by the (English) Finance Act of 1914. It is still payable in respect of deaths on or before May 11t...
death penalty
death penalty : death as punishment for a crime called also capital punishment see also cruel and unusual punishment Gregg v. Georgia in the Important Cases section NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the death penalty is not inherently violative of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, provided that the method is not deemed cruel and that the punishment is not excessive in relation to the crime. A statute mandating the death penalty is unconstitutional, however. A sentencing judge is required to consider any mitigating circumstances before imposing the death penalty for a crime. ...
Brained
Supplied with brains...
Hot brained
Ardent in temper violent rash impetuous as hot brained youth...
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